Generally, when people talk about political pressure, it's not given that it will have a particular outcome. It could be that the target walks something back, or it could be that they double down, or do something else. We tend to think they feel the pressure if they decide they need to respond
So, your strategy to get Trump to stop supporting ethnic cleansing in Gaza is to call him mean names in the hope that he stops, but you admit that it could backfire completely and he could double down on it instead?
I think if international leaders were disciplined and constantly said straight up that Trump is a miserable failure and that his weakness was what allowed ISR to commit genocide in Gaza, and that he was Bibi's stooge, and reporters kept asking Trump about that....there would be a reaction yes
Ok, I'm done with this dumbfuckery. "There would be a reaction". Well no shit, but if that reaction is to make everything *worse* then your strategy would be worse than doing nothing, wouldn't it? (Rhetorical) If you've got a better idea than mean names, I'm willing to listen. Until then, muting.
In the real world, results are never guaranteed. But it would be great if people tried and didn't just preemptively give up. What's your actual opinion? That he is super stable and steadfastly immune to pressure?
My opinion is he doesn't actually give a fuck *what* people are saying about him, as long as they're taking about him. As long as Congress and SCOTUS are giving him a free pass, he's going to continue to do whatever crosses his syphilis-riddled brain at any particular moment.
That, since he's not worried about losing reelection, he is largely insulated from political pressure to do anything he doesn't want. Congress seems to be dutifully following along, as if they, too, have no reelection worries. Since he is above the law, the solutions will have to be beyond the law.
A good example from this week is the UK governments response to the Online Safety Act. They haven't given up on it, but it sure looks like they feel the need to loudly defend it. So I would say they feel pressure over it, even though it's not the outcome I desire.